By actively encouraging knowledge dissemination and discussion we hope to raise awareness about key ecological issues and build opportunities for collaboration among our partners.
Scheduled seminar sessions are held at ARI on Mondays 1-2 pm, unless otherwise indicated. Each session runs for a total of one hour and includes time for questions. Sessions may involve multiple speakers giving shorter 'snapshot' style presentations. Note that the schedule is subject to change at short notice.
If you would like to be on the seminar email notification list, which includes receiving presentation summaries and webinar (live viewing of seminar slides with audio via the internet) details, please let us know by contacting research.ari@delwp.vic.gov.au
Seminars are at: 123 Brown Street Heidelberg, Victoria
2018 ARI Research Seminar Series
Seminars are held on Mondays 1-2 pm unless otherwise indicated. Our program will be continually developed throughout the year.
| 2018 | Speaker(s) and subject | |
|---|---|---|
| July | 2nd |
Lindy Lumsden (ARI, Wildlife Ecology) Artificially creating new hollows for the Critically Endangered Leadbeater's Possum Justin O'Connor (ARI, Aquatic Connectivity & Fish Passage) Guidelines for fishway managment in Victoria Frank Amtstaetter (ARI, Aquatic Connectivity & Fish Passage) Fishways provide catchment-scale improvements to a diadromous fish population upstream of barrier Register for the webinar to view this seminar live online |
| May | 14th |
Liam Smith (BehaviourWorks Australia, Monash Sustainable Development Institute) Conducting behavioural reserach to deliver better environmental behaviour change programs |
| April | 9th |
Will Mooney (Murray Lower Darling Rivers - Indigenous Nations) National Cultural Flows Research Project |
| 23rd |
John Lesku (La Trobe University, School of Life Sciences) Sleeping in the sea & air | |
| March | 19th |
Anne Christianson (University of Minnesota) Climate resilience: looking at social-ecological system vulnerabilities through a gender lens |
| 26th |
Sam Grover (La Trobe University & RMIT) Peatlands of the Victorian Alps and Indonesia | |
| February | 19th |
Paul Sunnucks (Monash University, School of Biological Sciences) Climate adaptation and population divergence in the Eastern Yellow Robin |
2017 ARI Research Seminar Series
Presentations that were part of our 2017 series.
| 2017 | Speaker(s) and subject | |
|---|---|---|
| December | 4th |
Katherine Harrisson (ARI, Aquatic Restoration & Environmental Flows, and La Trobe University) Genetics: what is it good for? |
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11th 11am -12 pm |
Sabra Comet (Portland State University, USA) Engaging Native American tribes as stakeholders in marine reserves management | |
| November |
8th Wednesday |
John Hayes (Cawthron Institute, New Zealand) Effects of flow alteration and multiple stressors on drift feeding fish: insights from trout bioenergetics and invertebrate drift process modelling |
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20th 11am - 12 pm | Either side of the Big Wet of 2010-2012: the future resilience of south-eastern Australia's biota Ralph MacNally (University of Canberra) Plains vertebrates (Box-Ironbark): amphibians and birds Jian Yen (University of Melbourne) Plains vegetation (Box-Ironbark) Ralph MacNally Floodplain vegetation Jim Thomson (ARI, Ecological Analysis and Synthesis) Stream macroinvertebrates | |
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20th 1-2 pm |
Dave Hunter (Office of Environment and Heritage, NSW) Challenges associated with threatened species management over the past 20 years | |
| October | 2nd |
Richard Peters (La Trobe University, School of Life Sciences) Game of Thrones: explaining displays of aggression by lizards |
| September | 4th |
Rob Hale (University of Melbourne, School of BioSciences) Assessing the ecological costs and benefits of artificial wetlands in urban landscapes |
| August | 14th |
Patrick Grillas (Tour de Valat, France) Restoration of the Camargue Wetlands |
| 28th |
John Morgan (La Trobe University, School of Life Sciences) So the alpine's shrinking, right? Insights from space, time and 'by design' experiments | |
| June | 5th |
Fern Hames (ARI, Science Manager Communication and Collaboration) Antarctica: learning about leadership and climate change from penguins and glaciers |
| May | 1st |
Brett Bryan (Deakin University, School of Life and Environmental Sciences) Integrated modelling for sustainability of coupled human and natural systems |
| 22nd |
John Weiss (Agribio, Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources) How good are we at finding pests? Can dogs, drones, DNA help? | |
| March | 6th |
Paul Boon (Victoria University, Engineering and Science) The Hawkesbury River: a social and natural history |
| February | 27th |
Carlo Pacioni (ARI, Predator Management) Applications of population genetics to wildlife management Chris Jones (ARI, Riparian and Estuarine Ecology) A journey from riparian vegetation and back again |